I unabashedly love bookstores. But they need to evolve, to change some habits that have long since become obsolete.
Geoffrey Jennings | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books
The number of independent booksellers is growing, and the explanation is very simple. Independent booksellers sell books.
Praveen Madan | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books
"You did what?" is the typical response when we tell our friends that we quit our cushy corporate jobs and bought an independent bookstore in the heart of San Francisco.
Gina Frangello | Posted 11.29.2009 | Chicago
By the early 1990s, there were more than 100 feminist bookstores in the U.S. Now, after the explosion of chain bookstores and a changing political climate, there are a mere seven remaining.
Tom Matlack | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
Of all these industries facing revolution, the book folks are the most arrogant. They just don't get it. It's time for the old book food chain to develop a holistic approach to something new.
Kevin Smokler | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media
Just from asking around, missing the LA Times Book Festival this past weekend was the social equivalent of toilet paper on the shoe.
Carol Fitzgerald | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business
I want to take a serious look at the special places where I like the selection, personal service or the ambiance. And support them.
Max Wheeler | Posted 05.08.2009 | Home
Equator Books, a bookstore and art gallery specializing in rare and out-of-print books in Venice, Ca, will be forced to close its doors very soon with...
Hugh McGuire | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media
The question every publisher should be asking themselves is: how can we provide more value to our readers? I suspect the ones that start each day with that question will find the right answers.
Buz Teacher | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media
The entire publishing industry is contracting very quickly and there is something we should consider doing about it: Bring back the Federal Writers Project.
Karen Dionne | Posted 03.07.2009 | Style
If more book-lovers become book-buyers, perhaps the publishing industry's woes will ease, and the 14% who buy more than 20 books a year will explode next time Random House takes a survey.
Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 07.31.2008 | Media
So I read yesterday that the L.A. Times has finally done in the book review section. Sad, short sighted, and just another bad omen for the print world.
Jason Pinter | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books